I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.

If hell comes as a result of my speaking the truth, then let it come.

Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and espouse their rhetorically liberal points of view while they continue to be the 1 percent and point the finger at the other guy.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

You cannot wear every expectation. Consider putting aside one's that don't fit.

If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

The market always provides us with opportunities.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.